Stranda, Møre og Romsdal

Stranda is the administrative centre of Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the Storfjorden.
The village has a population of 2,571 and a population density of. This is the largest urban area in the municipality.
The village is the shopping and industry center of the municipality. It lies along Norwegian County Road 60, and there is a ferry connection to the village of Liabygda, across the fjord. The village of Helsem lies about south of Stranda. Stranda Church is located in Stranda. The newspaper Sunnmøringen is published in Stranda.

History

At 10:00 p.m. on 8 January 1731, a landslide with an estimated volume of fell from a height of on the slope of the mountain Skafjell into the Storfjorden opposite the village of Stranda. The slide generated a megatsunami in height that struck Stranda, flooding the area for inland and destroying the church and all but two boathouses, as well as many boats. Damaging waves struck as far away as Ørskog Municipality. The waves killed 17 people. It was the first natural disaster in Norway to be reported and documented in historic time.